Background
Dr. Nicole Shilkofski is an assistant professor of pediatrics and anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include pediatric critical care medicine.
Dr. Shilkofski serves as the associate director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center, the medical director of the Hopkins Outreach for Pediatric Education (H.O.P.E.) Office, and the associate program director of the Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In addition to her work at Johns Hopkins, she is also the vice dean for Education at Purdana University Graduate School of Medicine in Malaysia.
She received her undergraduate degree in pre-professional studies and psychology from the University of Notre Dame. She earned her Masters Degree in Medical Education from the University of Cincinnati. She earned her M.D. from Tulane University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric critical care at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She also completed a fellowship in simulation and educational research at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Shilkofski joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2004.
Dr. Shilkofski's research interests include medical simulation in education and healthcare.
She has been recognized by The Lisa J. Heiser Award for Junior Faculty Contribution in Education from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Excellence in Education and by the Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Citation from the American Medical Women's Association. She is a member of the Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare, the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine, the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics.